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Chapter Twelve Page 19

Sparrow: The only record of a Being ever dying is from a Nazi experiment. The record of everything they tested on the poor thing is buried in some archive somewhere, but you can find this much online: It was kept without a Master.

Nobody was allowed to visit it alone. If anybody tried to make a Contract with it, the order was to shoot them instantly.

Given what we’ve seen happen to a Being whose Master won’t take her into fights or give her a whole lot of orders . . .

. . . what would happen if a Being was forced to spend years on end with no Master at all?

Wow, they did manage to find something useful in all the Internet chaff. So double whammy on Miranda’s it’s better for me to have Patrick than you stance, she should know this. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Miranda decided to ignore it because she’s done a bang-up job ignoring what she doesn’t want to hear already, but Bianca really needs to wake up now.

And the Maus reference doesn’t distract me from the bottom right panel. Walker heading into a basement with a prison door fills me with tingly foreboding.

So we finally have the elusive secret of how to kill a being. And if Sparrow can wiki it, then Walker had the information as soon as she got interested. Seeing how she wants to kill them, and seeing how she was going to inherit one on some guy’s death IIRC, there’s no mistaking the use of that cell. Gotta feel sorry for the poor being seeing that Walker’s campaign of genocide is to ‘be on the safe side’ based off of some records from a cult showing identical features to an ancient text about what beings are supposed to eventually turn into.

I think the Being that she got from the man is the Tiger Being that she is the current master of. If she has one hidden away with no master, we haven’t seen how she acquired or arranged to acquire it (yet).